After a morning of hand calling I stopped by the post office and there it was, my FX3. I sat in the truck playing with it to get familiar enough to use it right away. My truck sure was getting some funny looks.

I headed to an area I had put aside for when my caller came in. It was everything I thought it would be. First set I had some yotes howling just over a KM away. I just kept repeating the interrogation howl and eventually, there was a yote about 500 yards across the meadow. He slowly worked his way over keeping an eye open for the intruder. I decided to give him a few seconds of Snowshoe hare in distress. He picked up the pace then. He decided to disappear into the marsh to cut across and that was the last I seen of him. Don't know what happened. I stayed on that set for an hour and when I left, nothing ran off. :?

Next set was on a lake. I hung the caller in a willow bush and set up about 75 yards from it. Right away 3 ravens decide to try and attack my caller as I played the baby snowshoe hare distress. They gave up eventually and headed down to the other end of the lake. It looked like they were harassing something so I glassed down that way for a minute. When I lowered the nocs I caught movement over at the caller. It caught my movement too. It was a yote just a few yards from it. Where the hell did he come from? He took off and I set up for the shot. By the time he stopped at my barks, he was 200 yards out on the lake. I pulled the trigger but the safety was on. Damn it! ops: Had to woof him down a second time at 250 yards. This time I hit him. He rolled , got back up and rolled again.

This is when yote # 2 came running across the lake. I switched over to him and tried a running shot. I missed.

I looked back at #1 and he was booting it up the hill with yote #3 with him. What the hell! Soooo, I tracked for what seemed like a mile or so until it got too thick and deep. I found about a 6 foot length of intestine so I'm pretty sure he's done for. Christ, I hate when this happens though.

It took me 45 minutes just to get back to my caller and the another 1/2 hour to the truck. I had one spot I wanted to check on the way home before it got dark.

As I set up on a long narrow lake I spotted something crossing at the other end around 400 yards. It saw me too. I dropped on my ass and took a look through the scope. It was a big lynx. It was moving again so I let out a woof. It stopped and I nailed him. I guess I hit a little low. He spun and bucked up. Not being sure how good the shot was, I let out another. This was a solid vital shot and he flipped about 5 feet high 4 times before he ran for shore and wiped out. I collected him at around 440 paces. Quite the afternoon. Called in 4 yotes and that lynx sure picked the wrong time to cross a lake. If he hadn't seen me and I started with the caller, he would of probably came in anyways.

Here's some pics of him.

CONGRATS!! Looks like "more fun than eatin' beans"!! I just may have to try one of them FX3's out!! Got a $200.00 gift certificate from Cabelas so it shouldn't hurt quite as much!! Foxes are "ruttin" here right now! Running crazy like bucks in the fall!!! Groundhogs are sleeping(but I did see one last week on the Interstate just munching away on grass!!) crows can be fun this time of year also!!! GHD

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Foxes are "ruttin" here right now! Running crazy like bucks in the fall!!!

Getting real close to the yote breeding season here too. Should be pairing up any time now. The caller is really going to pay off then.

Nice lynx!

Big time congrats on the lynx!! They are high my list of critters to take. I have a spot all picked out to put a full body mount.

Good Hunting,

Bob

Very very nice cat. Congrats